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Jules Verne Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
— Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:(Annotated)(Unabridged)
Tagged: Balance, Laws, Nature, Mankind
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”
— Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Tagged: decision, Action, Energy, Success, Business, Mindset, self awareness, inaction
“The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.”
— Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:(Annotated)(Unabridged)
Tagged: Change, New, People, Places, Nature
“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
— Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Tagged: Life, Living, Needs, Necessity, Human needs
“To describe my despair would be impossible. No words could tell it. I was buried alive, with the prospect before me of dying of hunger and thirst.”
— Jules Verne, A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Tagged: Fear, Despair, Hope, Hopelessness, Death, Dying
“But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.”
— Jules Verne, A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Tagged: Grief, Feelings, Emotion, confusing
“This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning.”
— Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:(Annotated)(Unabridged)
Tagged: force, abduction, Fast, Quick, Metaphor
“What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?”
— Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:(Annotated)(Unabridged)
Tagged: Question, discuss, argument, Opinions
“External objects produce decided effects upon the brain.”
— Jules Verne, A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Tagged: Possessions, Materialistic, Mindset, mentality, Ownership, Things
“People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.”
— Jules Verne, From The Earth To The Moon
Tagged: Words, Opinion, Thoughts, believing, Difficulties, Deception
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